Dameronia : The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron /

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This is an authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history, and one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band. He arranged for names like Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford, and Dizzy Gillespie and p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Combs, Paul (Saxophonist) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dameron, Tadd, > 1917-1965.
Jazz musicians.
Composers.
MUSIC > General.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
Musiciens de jazz > États-Unis > Biographies.
Compositeurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Jazz musicians > United States > Biography.
Composers > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Early days
  • The early 1940s : Kansas City
  • The early 1940s : New York
  • The architect of bop
  • 1947 : into the limellight
  • 1948 : the royal roost
  • 1949 : international fame
  • 1950-55 : into the shadows
  • 1956 : back in action
  • 1957-1961 : incarceration
  • 1961-1962 : release
  • The final sessions
  • "Le Fôret" : the legacy of Tadd Dameron.

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